On the belly amphora by the andokides painter munich 2301 eye cups usually feature a black figure image on the interior and red figure motifs on the external.
Attic bilingual amphora.
Munich staatliche antikensammlungen 2301.
His himation folded across his leg is adding to the difficulty of the challenge.
The ivy wreaths on his head and round the neck of the amphora add to the festive mood of the scene.
Several details regarding the artistic biography of the andokides painter have been suggested through connoisseurial studies of his work.
Bibliography cohen beth attic bilingual vases and their painters 1978.
Much patterning and some incision as in black figure.
Heracles kneeling before the gates of hades chains the two headed guard dog cerberus.
Bilingual vase painting was almost entirely restricted to belly amphorae of type b and to eye cups in some cases either side of an amphora bore a depiction of the same motif one in black figure the other in red figure e g.
Attributed to the andokides painter and lysippides painter.
The lysippides painter was an attic vase painter in the black figure style.
53 3cm amphora type a function.
520 b c from vulci.
Side a of an attic red figure bilingual amphora painted by andokides ca.
Herakles at the symposion.
Staatliche antikensammlung munich inv.
Boston museum of fine arts size.
Storage and display technique.
He is accompanied in his labour by the goddess athena not shown.
The hero wears a lion skin.
He is trying to balance an amphora with a pointed bottom on his raised foot.